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As many travellers may know, people at US borders are subject to an altered set of laws due to the fact that… well, a border is a border. This includes "pseudo-borders" like airports that may be located well within US soil. The most obvious...

Reuters is reporting the unsurprising news that London, New York City, and San Francisco are seeing dramatic drops in smartphone thefts after the implementation of kill switches on devices became mandatory. The ability to encrypt the contents of these...

The new year brings us surprises. According to nj.com , New Jersey governor Chris Christie has signed into law a requirement that health insurance companies encrypt client information. As nj.com points out, The Garden State has been witness to a couple...

According to v3.co.uk , a recent informational release by Transport for London (TfL) shows that nearly 25,000 devices were left behind by Londoners in 2013. Phones, laptops, tablets, and other data storage devices were mistakenly mislaid in buses, trains...

Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has notified nearly 1,000 people that a computer that was protected with laptop encryption software has been stolen. Normally, the use of encryption would provide safe harbor from sending such a notification letter...

The Wall Street Journal reports on the Home Depot data breach. Among some of the revelations is that (a) they had actually upgraded to the latest security measures when the data breach was discovered and (b) executives were handed Apple devices to counteract...